When I was 17 I decided that I was going to be a comic writer. I wrote a load of stuff and even managed to get an old neighbour of mine to draw a couple of pages of it (the great Rob Blackwell).Then real life got in the way and I have ended up drifting from job to job. The dream is still there flickering away in my mind but at the end of the day I still have to take that step. It's funny as this seems to come in waves. Just when I have decided that I could not make anything as good as what is already out there and accepted just being a consumer, I see or read something that just re-ignites the whole dream again.Is the universe sending me signals? Only time will tell.It's good to see lots of people out there who are actually doing something though, it does bode well for the uture of the medium

I've working on getting the hang of doing short, sharp, twist in the tale things, 5 page future shocks.I've got one appearing in the next issue of a British sci-fi comic called Futurequake, and they've just told me another one has been accepted as well, so it's fired me up to try and do more.

I want to write more comics.I've had a couple for FutureQuake and one in an upcoming Zarjaz at some point.I've mostly been working on prose again these last months. But I do have a potential project set up with an artist, just waiting for some time to free up in his schedule so he can draw the first issue. Then I just need to write the other 5 I promised could fit together as a mini if we can't sell it as an ongoing.

Me, Sir. I have a script ready about a cross country truck driver named Trucker Dave. The first arc is called "In the Lair of the Lot Lizards", and features our Vietnam Vet All-American taking down meth dealers and saving prostitutes. Future arcs would include Trucker Dave taking on unknown cargo for a large company, which turns out to be illegal immigrants. Dave evades police, arrives at the company HQ, and kicks down cubicle walls to get to the top before strangling the CEO with his own necktie. Now all I need is an artist, as my previous artist had no gumption.

Hey, count me as a YES. I want to be making comics. I put out my first graphic novel earlier this year and am now developing a webcomic... hmmm, wonder what may have inspired me to do such a thing...

I'm a writer and really need to connect to more illustrators, so if you're on here, make sure and say hi to me. And thanks for for the link at the top of the post... I actually didn't know of it and will check it out.

I'm an aspiring artist/writer. My strengths are more in the art department. I'm working on a few personal projects, but the biggest one should be completed by next year. I hope to publish it to Image Comics or self publish.

I guess I do, in the sense that most people who read comics must on some level want to make their own. I have no real plans to do so, though. I often get ideas, which I try to type down as best I can, but I lack the energy, focus, motivation, and training to flesh these ideas into full stories or scripts.

@ KatherineIndovina: paying an artist is probably the safest way to see something completed. I found a "collaborator" in Florida, who was really enthusiastic about my script and couldn't wait to get started, etc. (He even made character designs) Then all of sudden he stopped answering my e-mails and that was that. (And he hadn't died, as I could see that he logged on to his myspace page every day).

Anyway, I found out that I really didn't have the patience to search for artists that would draw 48 pages for free, so I decided to bring out my wallet. The artist I've hired now is from Brazil, and his page rate is 35 dollars, which I don't think is that steep. And yeah, he can really draw, too.

Yar. Working on it. I can draw, but it takes too damn long to do everything myself. What I REALLY need is a competent artist who doesn't have the time/inclination to already be busy with their own stuff; someone to whom I can feel confident handing over ideas I don't have time to finish myself. Someone who can work from a script, some sketches, and a storyboard. The 'start a band' method appeals to me, and I have the , experience, and willpower to get such a thing on shelves, just don't have the goddamned TIME to be cranking this stuff out by myself on any sort of reasonable schedule.

I had a webcomic a few years back, and I am currently looking to bring it back. I started re-writing it, redefining characters (even had to rename it when the "central" character become somewhat secondary) and themes and such, and soon I'll (hopefully) be on my way to scripting and drawing the damn thing.